Color Palette Extractor
Upload any image and instantly extract a 6-color palette of the dominant colors. Output as HEX and RGB ready for CSS, design tools, and brand systems.
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How to use the Color Palette Extractor
Upload an image. Tool downscales it for fast analysis, then groups pixels into similar-color buckets and ranks by frequency. The 6 most-common colors appear as swatches plus CSS custom properties block.
Why this tool matters
Designers and brand strategists need to match colors to reference imagery. Algorithmic extraction produces objective, repeatable color picks that match the actual dominant colors of the source.
Common use cases
- Brand color palette from hero imagery
- Matching website colors to product photography
- Accent palettes for content
- Auditing brand palette in visual content
- Social media color picks
- Documenting competitor brand colors
Why we cluster colors into buckets
A photo has thousands of unique pixel colors. To find dominant colors we group similar shades together (rounding RGB to nearest 32) and rank by pixel count. Top 6 groups are the dominant colors.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the same image vary?
We downscale for speed. Small details below threshold get lost.
More or fewer than 6 colors?
Default is 6 — sweet spot for visual palettes.
Transparent PNGs?
Transparent pixels ignored.
Match Adobe Color?
Roughly, but algorithms differ.
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